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As an Agile coach, you are a keen observer. You have armed yourself with all the indicators of team dysfunction. You’re prepared for anything that can be wrong with a team or needs improvement. What could possibly be missing?

Spillover is the inability to meet the "Done" criteria for all stories in a sprint. It is critical to draw patterns from a spillover to identify its root causes and apply the learnings to subsequent sprints to avoid its reoccurrence.